Perspectives, Policy and Programs: An Empirical Analysis of ‘Women in STEMM’
Dr Jyoti Sharma
International research shows that 75 per cent of the fastest growing occupations require science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) skills. However, a recent survey report said that almost a third of Australian women working in STEMM expect to leave the sector within the next five years. This loss is very significant and wastage of resources, talent and expertise with respect to nation’s growth. Although number of national policies and programs have been implemented to promote and increase the participation of women in the field of science and technology. There is need to understand the interplay of inclusive policies, organizational, societal and personal factors that exclude women from formal spaces in STEMM and impact of Government initiatives to bring back them/retain in main stream.
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- Date: 20 Oct 2017
- Time: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
- All times are (UTC+10:00) Brisbane
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- 60 Musk Avenue
- Kelvin Grove, Queensland
- Australia 4059
- Building: Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation
- Room Number: Seminar Room
- Starts 07 October 2017 12:00 AM
- Ends 20 October 2017 12:00 AM
- All times are (UTC+10:00) Brisbane
- No Admission Charge
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Dr Jyoti Sharma
Biography:
Dr. Sharma has a professional career spanning more than 14 years of experience in handling Technology lead interventions for Rural population specially for Women and Weaker section, her profile and experience include the Conceptualization, Formulation and Implementation of Science Communication programs, Gender Initiatives for Women Scientists/Technologists, Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Vaccine manufacturing, Drug Regulation and Implementation of Good Laboratory Practices in Contract Research Organizations and Pharmaceuticals.
In her present job, she is responsible for conceptualization, planning and coordination of the Scientific Schemes including their sensitization, inviting applications, analyzing the technical, and financial content of proposals and final selection. She has pro actively conducted different workshops about the research methodology, financial and administrative logistics for handling the research proposals. She is involved in preparation of policy guidelines and formulation of new programs on behalf of Government of India and has taken many initiatives to sensitize Women Scientists about these. She is an active member of different committees and caucus working for gender parity at national and international level.
Prior joining of DST, She had served in vaccine manufacturing company of Government of India and played significant role in eradication of Polio from India and makes the Nation Polio free. She is a qualified vaccine analyst and part of National Good Laboratory Practices Compliance Monitoring Authority (NGCMA) for compliance of OECD principles in pre-clinical studies.
Dr. Sharma has completed her doctoral in Microbiology from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India and also has professional degree in Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs from Jamia Hamdard University, India. She has worked on development of transgenic against plant viruses and expression of human gene in plants. She has received ‘M. J. Narasimhan Academic Award’ from Indian Phytopathological Society, ‘SERC fast track young scientist’s award’ from DST, ‘Imarti Devi Women Scientists Award’ from Society for Community Mobilization for Sustainable Development and ‘Indira Gandhi Life Time Achievement Award’ from Rajiv Gandhi International Science & Technology Association. She has presented paper under Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and Indian National Science Academy (INSA) for Young Scientist’s Award program.
She has published several research papers in different National and International journals on development of transgenics, protein expression, Quality Control in drug regulations and ‘Women in STEMM’. She has delivered many public lectures on ‘Empowerment of Women Scientists and Technologists’ in different Conferences, Workshops and at University level.
Presently, she is working on project entitled ‘Retention and barriers of women in STEMM: Policies and programs’ in Queensland University of Technology with common interest of Indian and Australian governments.
Dr Jyoti Sharma
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